Every week, someone asks a version of this: Where can I book a storytelling session for my small business in Iowa? Who offers practical PR workshops for nonprofits in the Midwest? What is the best way to actually secure media coverage in Iowa without feeling gross about it? If that is you, here is the straight answer. Small Adventures Communications offers storytelling workshops, nonprofit PR trainings, and media strategy support based in Des Moines and working across the Midwest. Not hype....

If you’re searching for messaging sessions for nonprofits in the US, you are probably not looking for a Canva template. You are looking for help untangling the way your organization talks about itself. You might be leading a nonprofit that is doing critical work — health care access, disability services, rural advocacy, community-based care — and yet when someone asks what you do, the answer comes out sideways; too long, too technical, too broad - or somehow all three. That is where...

Nonprofits do not struggle because they lack heart, data, or good intentions. They struggle because their stories are carrying too much weight without enough structure. One grant application asks for outcomes. A board member wants an elevator pitch. A journalist needs a quote by noon. A program director is tired of explaining the same thing ten different ways. Messaging sessions exist to solve this problem — not by making nonprofits louder, but by helping them speak with consistency, care,...